I moved .fonts.conf to somewhere else, ran gconftool-2 as you suggested and restarted the machine. When I brought up Firefox, the letters had the same rainbow/bleeding effect (it's not causing me "fuzziness" - which to me implies that the edges are just not sharp enough - it's just that the wrong colors seem to be used in the font "smoothing"). I then went into System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts and went into the "Details" on the selected "Subpixel smoothing (LCD)" and changed the hinting to "Full". But that had no detectable effect on the halo effect. See the screenshot of my URL bar in firefox - the 'halo' is clearly visible, once again.
I then put my .fonts.conf back into $HOME, restarted, and took another screenshot of the same area - 'halo' is gone. Interestingly, when I go to the Appearance Preference again, the Rendering is actually "Monochrome"?? and hinting is at "Full". I know that before the ".fonts.conf" workaround - i.e. before Ubuntu 9.04, I always had subpixel smoothing (LCD) rendering. ** Attachment added: "color bleeding in black text" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48835438/bleeding2.png -- Desktop: all black text has color "bleeding" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369275 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
